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Recensione di Cometa M. (2017), Il Trionfo della morte di Palermo. Un’allegoria della modernità, Quodlibet, Macerata
2019
Michele Cometa’s book analyzes the fifteenth-century fresco Il Trionfo della Morte (The Triumph of Death), conceived for the courtyard of the Ospedale Grande e Nuovo of Palazzo Sclafani in Palermo and currently housed in the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis, in the same city. The approach is inspired by Visual Culture studies: there are historical reconstructions and references to previous critical analyses of the pictorial work, but the fresco is interpreted in a new way, considering its narrative structure, thematic clusters as well as the allegories, the medieval topoi and the different cultural influences present in Sicily at the time.
An Introduction to the Artist Who “Needed” Wittgenstein
2019
Mimicking Spatial Aesthetics: the Kunsthalle-effect on Young British Artists
2018
This chapter argues that UK artists at the end of the 20th century were confronted with the utter absence of Kunsthalle-like spaces in their country, but they set forth to independently organise such exhibition venues and to produce artworks or installations that would fit in there, in order to speak a global language.
«All We Are Saying Is Give Pizza Chance»: L’effetto YBA e l’irruzione di una nuova generazione alle Biennali degli anni Novanta del Novecento
2019
The chapter addresses the rise of the Young British Artists (YBA) in their home country and their subsequent international spread during the 1990s as seen in connection with the Venice Biennale occurring between 1993 and 2003. Particularly, the author argues that the Aperto ’93 section devoted to young artists at the Arsenale for the 45th Biennale was an unexpected starting point for the YBAs on the global stage and their first Venetian appraisal convinced home institutions such as the British Council to finance a large program of international exhibitions for this new artistic generation. Throughout the 1990s the Biennale thus became a major stage for the rising YBAs, which in turn deeply …
Half-Masturbation or the Constant Stimulus of Video Art. Kidnapping the Viewer with Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho
2016
Some people find it very annoying to visit a contemporary art show and to remain stuck in darkened rooms with videos running on monitors or projected against the walls. However, it is hard not to be drawn towards the passing frames and the audience inevitably tries to pick up the plot. Video art appears capable to bind the spectator compelling one in front of the screen, waiting to be amused or repelled. There appears to be some sort of irresistible attraction towards it, a sort of instinctive stimulus. How may an artist foster this natural lure creating attractive video pieces? Bruce Nauman for instance holds the viewer staring at videos as he bounces a ball against the wall or his balls w…
Fautographie
2018
Il libro raccoglie sette portfolio realizzati da Michele Di Donato tra il 2010 e il 2016. In questi lavori Di Donato restituisce diverse “realtà”: da quelle del surreale legate al disordine dei pensieri di chi dorme, a quelle del fantastico e della silenziosa metafisica della notte; dalle condizioni dello spazio moderno transitorio, anonimo e solitario alle percezioni di luoghi tanto indistinti da potersi immedesimare in qualsiasi possibilità paesaggistica fino a raggiungere le dimensioni di un déjà-vu o di un posto futuribile di una quinta teatrale; e ancora, le realtà identitarie dei luoghi e delle genti di Sicilia come dei fermo immagine della storia, ancore visuali, vecchie cartoline ch…
Margivaganti di Sicilia. Storie di immaginazione abusiva: Giovanni Cammarata e Israele
2011
ARCHITETTURA E ARTE CONTEMPORANEA NELLA VALLE DEL BELICE, IN SICILIA, COLPITA DAL SISMA DEL 1968: UN BILANCIO TRA ISTANZE DI CONSERVAZIONE E PROPOSTE…
2013
Because of the 1968 earthquake it was considered necessary thinking better of those years debate to rebuild Belice’s centres. In particular thanks to Gibellina’s experience we could appreciate the actuality of the union between contemporary art’s innovative charge and the damaged architectural estate, that was introduced for “the refounding”. This theory was about using the introduction of artworks into urban centers and public buildings as a resource’s “catalyst” to improve environmental quality. The Grande Cretto by Alberto Burri (1985) stretched out the Gibellina’s ruins included forever the dead city’s remains such as a shroud. Case Di Lorenzo museum (1981) contains the anastylosis of t…
Esporre gli archivi del Novecento. Anton Giulio Bragaglia, l'archivio di un visionario
2022
Il contesto della storia: qualche riflessione a partire da una mostra romana sui materiali dell’ archivio di Anton Giulio Bragaglia, fotografo, pubblicista, regista cinematografico e teatrale, drammaturgo attivo a Roma sin dagli anni dieci del secolo scorso. Autore d’avanguardia, Bragaglia si è occupato del teatro classico e del Rinascimento teorizzando, al tempo stesso, nuovi linguaggi scenici. Intellettuale poliedrico ha praticato quell’interdisciplinarietà e multimodalità, propria di molta ricerca visuale degli ultimi decenni, coniugando l’attenzione per la memoria dell’antico e per la tradizione della cultura italiana, con le istanze più aggiornate del dibattito a lui contemporaneo. Pro…
La soglia e i custodi delle arti. The Pale and Gatekeepers of the Arts
2016
For this year’s issue Venezia Arti is set to examine the idea of threshold in the arts, primarily meaning the limit or boundary that separates art from what is not considered as such. The definition embraces every possible kind of frontier between the art world and that, which is alien to it, hence observing the arts from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu’s field of forces, where interdependencies and positions among numerous actors legitimize artistic production. The focus thus shifts to the edge of the art world and to those who are identified as gatekeepers and possibly modify the barriers of a specific artistic discipline. Hereafter all subjects and groups who hold an institutional rol…